Pigment Testing

These minerals, yellow ochre and green earth, simply will not reach into high chromas and so won't match up with the hosta photo or actual leaf. I may give them a go any way.

Just before I stopped I remembered a new green earth, Bohemian, came in last week. It's on the yellow side. The Russian green earth I used most of this evening was definitely bluish--probably good for shadows but not for local color.

I think my yellow ochre leans warm. I'll dig through my box of pigments for a lemony ochre but I think it may be time for another Kremer order. Good excuse to pick up a few more pigments!

I'll play around more with color while I get off a few shots with proper lighting, something with Old Masters properties. That scanned image won't make it here.

Green earths, yellow ochre, titanium white.

Hosta Starter

I often have a fit of time starting a new project. I figure that I should have a pocketful of ideas ready for development. Alas, that intent is undeveloped.

This Hosta scan has a luminosity that I think will work nicely in egg tempera. I want to follow the botanical process I'm being taught before getting down to the actual panel.

I won't know until I get to the color studies if I can pull this off with natural minerals only, no synthetic organics, that is. I think it will come down to the available chroma of my green earths.